On April 30, 2014, just days after performing at the New
Orleans Jazz Fest, Golden Star Hunters Mardi Gras Indians Big Chief Larry Bannock
passed away.

Bannock had been involved with Indian culture since his 1950s
childhood. According to a 2006 Offbeat magazine profile, he became Spy Boy of
the Golden Star Hunters in 1973, and the gang's Big Chief in 1979.

Last year, in partnership with Yearling Pictures and the Mardi Gras Indian Council, students from
the Ohio State University (Newark) interviewed several Mardi Gras Indian Big
Chiefs, including Larry Bannock, for a film project exploring the singular New
Orleans tradition.

Bannock's
funeral will take place Saturday, May 10, at the City of Love Church, 8601
Palmetto St., with viewing at 11 a.m. and service at noon.

The
service will be followed by a Mardi Gras Indian tribal ceremony with
horse-drawn carriage procession to 7936 Edinburgh St., and then to the corner
of Olive and Pine streets, where Bannock once held Indian practice.